Morning Fizz
To Ensure Compliance with the City’s Ethical Standards
1. "This blog post has been updated to ensure compliance with the City’s ethical standards for the use of City resources when communicating about ballot issues."
—Text that now appears at the top of Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin's blog post about the tunnel referendum after Erica reported on his original post's defensive and misleading statements about how many signatures were gathered.
Conlin's original description of the signature count and Mayor Mike McGinn's role have been excised from the post.
A paragraph in the original post read:
Now it reads:
2. "Seattle International Film Festival ..... $491,000"
—A line item in the state's capital budget that SIFF successfully restored. (We thought we'd report some good news for the local film community after yesterday's downer .)
Other Seattle line items in the $2.4 million building for the arts fund: $71,000 for Town Hall; $106,000 for Velocity Dance Theater; and $163,000 for Seattle Musical Theater.
3. "According to Amazon sales data"
—Amazon tallied sales since the beginning of the year in cities with over 100,000 people to determine which American cities read the most.
Seattle is No. 9, between Gainesville, Florida and Arlington, Virginia. Bellevue is No. 15, which gives Washington State two cities on the top 20 list, tying Virginia. Florida had the most cities on the list with three.
The No. 1 city for readers was Cambridge, Massachusetts.
—Text that now appears at the top of Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin's blog post about the tunnel referendum after Erica reported on his original post's defensive and misleading statements about how many signatures were gathered.
Conlin's original description of the signature count and Mayor Mike McGinn's role have been excised from the post.
A paragraph in the original post read:
The judge’s ruling was on a referendum petition asking that the whole ordinance be placed on the ballot. A coalition of organizations led by Mayor McGinn paid a signature gathering firm $58,000 to gather 19,000 valid signatures. The judge agreed with City Attorney Pete Holmes that this ordinance and the three agreements were not subject to referendum.
Now it reads:
The judge’s ruling was on a referendum petition asking that the whole ordinance be placed on the ballot. The judge agreed with City Attorney Pete Holmes that this ordinance and the three agreements were not subject to referendum.
2. "Seattle International Film Festival ..... $491,000"
—A line item in the state's capital budget that SIFF successfully restored. (We thought we'd report some good news for the local film community after yesterday's downer .)
Other Seattle line items in the $2.4 million building for the arts fund: $71,000 for Town Hall; $106,000 for Velocity Dance Theater; and $163,000 for Seattle Musical Theater.
3. "According to Amazon sales data"
—Amazon tallied sales since the beginning of the year in cities with over 100,000 people to determine which American cities read the most.
Seattle is No. 9, between Gainesville, Florida and Arlington, Virginia. Bellevue is No. 15, which gives Washington State two cities on the top 20 list, tying Virginia. Florida had the most cities on the list with three.
The No. 1 city for readers was Cambridge, Massachusetts.
